![]() In 1968, when New York's Whitney Museum put on a retrospective of American art from the 1930s onward that didn't include a single Black artist, Ringgold protested, along with dozens of fellow Black artists. © 2021 Faith Ringgold/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy ACA Galleries, "Black Light #9: American Spectrum" (1969) by Faith Ringgold. One of the things that I feel really defines her practice is this fearlessness to take on anything," Rales said. Whether that was experimenting with different kinds of media or techniques, she was gonna do it, no matter what. ![]() ![]() "Sorry!"Įmily Rales, director and chief curator of the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland (where a large body of Ringgold's work is currently on display), said, "If she wanted to do something, she was not going to let anything stand in her way. "I painted them the way I saw 'em," she laughed. ![]()
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